Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)

Siemens MEAC to Host Workshop in Chicago

Siemens’ MEAC (MOM Expertise Alliance Center) is a community of highly skilled and strategic alliance partners providing MOM-specific services to manufacturers. These organizations provide high-perfo…

Controlling the 5Ms in Pursuit of Product Quality | Part 1 – Material

The more things change, the more they stay the same – translating a French proverb, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Wiktionary interprets this, “Turbulent changes do not affect reality on…

Should Your MES be PLM-centric or ERP-centric?

The architecture of your manufacturing systems should be guided by your manufacturing process. Complex engineer-to-order processes, with multiple manufacturing orders coming from PLM, have different …

Looking at Operational Excellence as a Value Stream

As we discussed in a previous blog, “From Point Solutions to Value Streams,” it’s time to look at the systems infrastructure of medical device manufacturers not as point solutions tackling particular…

Benefits of a Modern MES – 6 Key Requirements

Various manufacturing industries have different levels of MES adoption. For example, in the Semiconductor industry, almost every manufacturer has some type of MES deployed, and has for quite a while….

The Impetus for Paperless Manufacturing

Manufacturers in virtually all industry sectors have been made less efficient by paper-based processes. The problem with paper is manifold:

From a documentation perspective,the opportunity f…